Lisbon in the Renaissance : a new translation of the Urbis Olisiponis descriptio / by Jeffrey S. Ruth.

Main entry:

Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.

Title & Author:

Lisbon in the Renaissance : a new translation of the Urbis Olisiponis descriptio / by Jeffrey S. Ruth.

Publication:

New York : Italica Press, 1996.

Description:

xlvi, 76 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-68) and index.

Summary:

"Damião de Góis was a Portuguese humanist, a friend of Erasmus and his circle, and a writer imbued with the classical learning of his day. His Description of Lisbon was written in 1554 at the height of the city's commercial and cultural influence. It places the city in its geographical and historical setting, surveys its topography and environs, and reviews its major architectural attractions. Jeffrey S. Ruth's introduction places de Góis in the intellectual and historical context of the age, summarizes previous scholarship on the author and his work, and provides useful notes to de Góis' classical sources, his historical and geographical references, and to the sites mentioned in the text. This edition also includes a full reproduction of the 1598 map of Lisbon published by Braun & Hogenberg, detail illustrations, and a complete English transcription of their numbered key: an indispensable tool for the topography of the Renaissance city"--Back cover.

ISBN:

0934977364 (alk. paper)
9780934977364 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Travel.
Lisbon (Portugal) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Lisbon (Portugal) History.
Lisbonne (Portugal) Descriptions et voyages Ouvrages avant 1800.
Portugal Lisbon.

Form/genre:

Early works.
History.

Added entries:

Ruth, Jeffrey S., 1959-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 106342
Call No.: ID DP756.G68; ID:94-B247
Status: Available

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